Posted on 08/08/2011 9:41:20 AM PDT by mandaladon
Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal.
The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband’s successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.
She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald – long claimed to have been a lone assassin – merely part of a much larger conspiracy.
Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state’s governor and senator, completed Mr Kennedy’s term and went on to be elected president in his own right.
The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
The then Mrs Kennedy, who went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had ordered that they should not be released until 50 years after her death, with some reports suggesting she feared that her revelations might make her family targets for revenge.
She died 17 years ago from cancer aged 64 and now her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, has agreed to release the recordings early.
A programme featuring the tapes will be aired by U.S. network ABC, and it is understood British broadcasters are in talks to show it here too.
ABC executives claimed the tapes’ revelations were ‘explosive’.
They are believed to include the suggestion that Mr Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, with his wife even claiming that she found knickers in their bedroom.
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‘There was a period during which she was delighted to be able to annoy her husband with her own illicit romances.’ ........................Liberals doing what they do best.
Really?
“...knickers...”
Anyone else think Jackie was a little whacked?? Please...it’s just an opinion. Don’t hurt me.
Really?
I, for one, find it VERY hard to believe that LBJ haad an affair with a movie star.
Knikcers or Snickers.....neither satified JFK’s appetites.
Wait, what ?
I've long thought so but I have no problem believing that LBJ might have been behind the assasination of JFK. His antipathy, indeed near pathological hatred and envy, of the Kennedy's is well recorded.
1971 movie “Executive Action”
Starts with scene depicting a rich TX guy, after viewing a JFK speech, picking up the phone and says “go”.
I always thought it was meant to be H.L. Hunt.
Certainly implicates LBJ, through TX $$ connections.
She died in the bed of a married man who was not her husband. Does she have any credibility? And does anybody care?
Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state’s governor and senator,
Wait, what ?
I noticed that too.
Remember, cub reporters! Wikipedia is your friend (but always doublecheck regardless).
She was right and there is ample evidence for it. There was a coup that happened and all of the socialist programs just took of with LBJ. The only bright spot we have had since then was somewhat with GW and a lot with Reagan. The darkness tried to kill Ronald too, thank God they did not succede. That was probably the left also that programmed Hinkley...but it will never come out.
She was right and there is ample evidence for it. There was a coup that happened and all of the socialist programs just took of with LBJ. The only bright spot we have had since then was somewhat with GW and a lot with Reagan. The darkness tried to kill Ronald too, thank God they did not succede. That was probably the left also that programmed Hinkley...but it will never come out.
As I recall, that was one of the main points of Oliver Stone’s “JFK”.
One of my favorite conspiracy films, along with “The Parallax View” and of course, “The Manchurian Candidate” (original film directed by Frankenheimer).
After reading 3 books, biographies of Johnson by Robert Caro, I believe that Lyndon Johnson had EVERYTHING to do with Kennedy’s death.
There are sure a lot of Chicago mob people who believe the Mob had a hand in getting JFK shot. The fact that Jack Ruby killed him only supports that belief. JFK and his father used to Mob in IL to get elected and then pissed in their boot.
There are sure a lot of Chicago mob people who believe the Mob had a hand in getting JFK shot. The fact that Jack Ruby killed him only supports that belief. JFK and his father used to Mob in IL to get elected and then pissed in their boot.
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